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A proactive approach to reactor vessel aging management
Unit 2 at the Prairie Island nuclear power plant near Red Wing, Minn., underwent an outage in fall 2023, which included extensive work on the reactor vessel using a novel approach to replace baffle-former bolts and lower radial clevis insert bolts. The work relied on extensive analysis beforehand to determine which bolts to replace such that only the new bolts were structurally credited for performance of their safety function. This proactive approach eliminated the need for costly contingencies associated with inspections.
Jonathan I. Katz
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 80 | Number 1 | October 2024 | Pages S120-S167
Research Article | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2023.2260017
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The first calculation of energy exchange between electrons and the radiation field by inverse Compton and Compton recoil was reported by Hurwitz in Los Alamos Reports LA-301 (1945) and LA-553 (1946). These reports have not been generally known; even in 1950, Bethe called attention to their neglect. Yet, they predated Kompaneets’s widely cited 1957 paper and original 1950 report. “Comptonization” is important in many astronomical objects as well as in fusion energy. I make a very brief comparison with Kompaneets’s work and present Hurwitz’s reports as appendixes.
